The violence stems from a combustible blend of cultural and racial baggage many blacks carry, and the implicit message that black lives are expendable.
The news that nine blacks were shot and two were killed in New Orleans made headline news for a hot minute only because the shootings happened as tourists rushed into the city for the start of Mardi Gras week.
If it hadn't been for the world famous party going event, the black-on-black violence would have been a ho-hum occurrence that wouldn't have gotten a line in the national press.
Black-on black murder may be a non-story, but the tragedy is that black homicides fuel the nation's murder surge. A week before the New Orleans carnage, the Violence Policy Center reported that black murders are off-the chart in many of America's big cities. The Bureau of Justice in its report on homicides went one better and found that the black murder rate is many times higher than that of whites, or even Latinos. In fact it's the leading cause of death among black males age 16 to 34.
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